Doris Lusk, 'Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsula' - Print New Zealand Artists

Doris Lusk, 'Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsula' - Print New Zealand ArtistsIn the late 1940s Doris Lusk rented a disused farmhouse at Duvauchelle. Located at the head of Akaroa Harbour on Banks Peninsula, the house was a destination at holiday times and weekends for Lusk, her husband Dermott Holland and their young family, as well as a gathering place for artistic and literary friends. Lusk took the distinctive forms of the Banks Peninsula landscape as her subject matter in a number of works over the next few years,

including photomontage and collage

so all of Marika’s representations are legal

and especially Takaka night and day

again touching on this mix of traditional religious art and contemporary techniques

She has a broad interest in the intersections within te ao Māori and how this contributes to a diverse contemporary Māori society

Māori scholars and writers share the traditional knowledge passed down the generations by word of mouth

Through a chronology rich with people

which seems to float in space

compassion

continuing an artistic dialogue begun a decade earlier in Dunedin

signals the formation of the extraordinary vision that would propel McCahon’s work throughout his career

blackboard-like image